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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Maddow's teasing of Trump tax return release, in bid to boost ratings, backfires as White House distributes the document in question during show — NBC coined the slogan “Must-See TV” more than two decades ago; tonight, MSNBC invented “hurry-up-and-wait” TV.
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Ken Doctor / TheStreet.com:
Sources: American Media, owner of the National Enquirer, is likely to buy Us Weekly as soon as this week for close to $100M as Tronc pulls out of deal — At this moment in matrimonial M&A, TroncUs has split, but the latter isn't content with the single life.
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Erin McPike, White House correspondent for the Independent Journal Review, lands only press spot on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Asia — Erin McPike, the White House correspondent for the Independent Journal Review, was the only journalist to have a seat on the trip.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: Snap plans to prioritize placement of original shows for Snapchat Discover; media firms split in choosing licensing fee, sticking with ad revenue share — Snap wants Snapchat Discover to be more like TV — and longtime media partners, as always, will be expected to adapt.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media signs expanded deal with Snap, under which it will produce shows exclusively for Snapchat, including an eight-episode dating series — Snapchat continues to beef up its lineup of premium short-form shows: Snap Inc. and Vice Media have struck an expanded deal under which Vice will produce shows exclusively for Snapchat.
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Alan Travis / The Guardian:
MPs grill representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google over online hate speech and other offensive material — Committee tells Twitter, Facebook and others they should get tough on online abuse, with one MP accusing them of ‘commercial prostitution’ — Social media companies including …
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Judge orders ABC to face trial in $5.7B “pink slime” defamation lawsuit brought by Beef Products Inc., but drops Diane Sawyer as a defendant — A South Dakota state judge has ordered ABC Broadcasting to face a potential $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it damaged Beef Products Inc …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Axios plans to hire about a dozen more before end of 2017 and is now expanding into science coverage — Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen's new media venture is already expanding beyond its core sweet spots. — Around the time that Donald Trump packed up his things and headed south to run the country …
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Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Once a channel for political expression in Iran, Telegram now seen by some as censorship tool; in one province, 80 channels shut down, 32 users arrested in Jan. — This picture taken on Sept. 15, 2016, in Paris shows an illustration of the Telegram messenger application on a smartphone.
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Journalist and former TV anchor Willow Bay, spouse of Disney CEO Bob Iger, is named dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — Just under thee years after she became the director of USC Annenberg School for Journalism, Willow Bay today has shattered a glass ceiling at the SoCal institute.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
The many ties between Murdoch and Trump offer mutual benefits, with the tenor of Fox News in particular echoing Trump's nationalism and hostility to other media — The Trump era has opened with the promise of a White House foothold for media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Sam Parr, founder and CEO of The Hustle, a newsletter that covers tech/business, has 300K subs and raised $300K from readers by offering stock — “One guy put in a hundred grand.” — Launching a general-interest tech and business news site these days seems like kind of a dumb idea — there's way too much competition.
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